A new study suggests Turnitin can be oddly harsher on mostly human-written assignments than on fully AI-generated ones. So apparently the safest way to avoid looking like you used too much AI may be to use even more AI. Academia has finally reached peak absurdity: the detector is now grading the crime scene with a blindfold and a random number generator.
2026
07
May
The Many Punks: A Field Guide to Futures That Refuse to Behave
The future is never just gadgets and skylines. Cyberpunk, solarpunk, cypherpunk, steampunk, and their unruly cousins are not merely aesthetics with goggles, neon, brass, or solar panels glued on top. They are arguments about power: who owns the machines, who gets watched by them, who repairs them, and who dares to build something better.
2025
06
Nov
The Framework Saga – When the laptop you love, backs the wrong crowd
Framework built its reputation on openness and repairability, but when “open” starts to include the far-right, things get messy. Their sponsorship of DHH’s Omarchy project raises uncomfortable questions about where ideals end and ideology begins. It’s a reminder that even modular laptops can carry moral baggage, and sometimes the hardest part to replace isn’t a component – it’s integrity.
14
May
The Political Climate Is a Cybersecurity Problem – And It’s Time to Move Your Data
In a world where cloud giants are entangled with global surveillance and legal overreach, trusting your data to ‘neutral’ infrastructure is a risky illusion. This post dives into why geopolitical tension is now a cybersecurity issue – and why it’s smarter than ever to store your data locally, or at least within the EU